MEDICAL

Modern medicine depends on reliable imaging

Applications for medical imaging

STEMMER IMAGING offers many products for recording, acquisition, processing and archiving of images. These are, for example, camera systems and modules for microscopy, endoscopy, ophthalmology, dermatology and for surveillance of operating theatres, intensive care units, sleep laboratories, etc., as well as systems for laboratory diagnostics and laboratory analysis.

Comprehensive product range

Our product range also includes camera systems for measurement and tracking
during laser eye surgery, HD 3-chip micro cameras for integration in
endoscopes, camera systems for positioning and analysis of samples in
automated analysers and many more.

We also offer a large selection of frame grabbers for different video sources
and standards such as PAL, NTSC, DVI, HD-SDI, USB, FireWire, GigE, LVDS and
CameraLink.

Driving medical research and development

STEMMER IMAGING is one of seven partners from England, Spain and Germany comprising the Microlean project to develop a retrofitable automated microtome system for histology.

This 24-month project, funded from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-SME-2013), will incorporate a contactless sample transportation system for histology.

STEMMER IMAGING is proud to be a member of the Microlean project which works on a retrofitable automated microtome system incorporating contactless sample transportation for histology process.

The research undertaken in this project has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement number 605467.

Automation helps reduce costs in health care
Histology, the microscopic examination of cell tissue samples, is an essential component in the early detection of diseases such as cancer. Total pathology services, of which histology is an important part, costs the UK’s NHS an estimated £2.5 billion per annum, of which the single most expensive element is the labour cost. Automation of the sample sectioning, or microtomy, (producing 4 µm thick slices) stage in histology could go a long way to reducing these costs.

Vision technology has a key role to play
Mark Williamson, Director – Corporate Market Development at STEMMER IMAGING, explains: “While the sample preparation and sample staining stages of histology have been successfully automated or semi-automated, the microtomy stage not only remains labour intensive, but requires a skilled Histologist who may require up to a year’s training. The Microlean project aims to automate this process and vision technology has a key role to play.”

Newly developed ‘Medical Video Server’“STEMMER IMAGING will support the project in the development of the vision system using smart cameras for monitoring the samples and the sectioning process,” he continued. “The project will be able to make use of components from our extensive portfolio of imaging products, including the newly developed ‘Medical Video Server’. We will also be able to contribute our considerable expertise in recording, managing and display any common video source and distributing the data via LAN/WAN for HD video streaming over a network.”